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Jack_ Secret Vengeance - F. Paul Wilson
Review“Wilson deftly keeps interest high with well-drawn characterizations, modulating the thrills with details of day-to-day life in the early 1980s. Cracking good fun for teens.”... -
Illywhacker_ A Novel - Peter Carey
From Publishers WeeklyFirst published in 1985, this picaresque tale from Australian novelist Carey presents the life story of a highly unreliable 139-year-old con man. Copyright 19... -
High on the Hog_ A Culinary Jou - Jessica B. Harris
FromAcclaimed cookbook author Harris (The Africa Cookbook, 1998) tells the story of the African diaspora through food, from the foodstuff brought along with African slaves to barel... -
Hiding Man_ A Biography of Dona - Tracy Daugherty
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. This sprawling first biography of the writer Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) complements an exemplary account of the man and his milieu with a hi... -
Gabriel Garcia Marquez_ a life - Gerald Martin
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The first full and authorized biography of the 1982 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature—the most popular international novelist of the last fifty years.Over t... -
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco; William Weaver
From Publishers WeeklyIf a copy (often unread) of The Name of the Rose on the coffee table was a badge of intellectual superiority in 1983, Eco's second novel--also an intellectual... -
Five Past Midnight in Bhopal - Dominique Lapierre; Javier Moro
It was December 3, 1984. In the ancient city of Bhopal, a cloud of toxic gas escaped from an American pesticide plant, killing and injuring thousands of people. When the noxious cl... -
Easy Way to Stop Smoking - Allen Carr
Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking is the world's most popular quit smoking title, with an 80+% market share in the smoking cessation category. First published in the UK in 1985,... -
Doomstalker - Glen Cook
Doomstalker (1985) is the first Fantasy novel in the Darkwar trilogy. It is set on a world far away in time and space where the meth live. In the Upper Ponath, they live in ignoran... -
Doctor Who_ The Edge of Destruc - Nigel Robinson
Product DescriptionIn this exciting unabridged reading of a Doctor Who novelization, first published by Target Books in 1988, the Doctor and his companions are trapped inside the T...